tom foreman at cnn, emmy award winner, you must not have much to do over there. if you wrote and i read a number of the letters. some of the letters probably took an hour or are two. >> no. >> oh, yeah. take a look at them. they have posted on the cnn website all 1,460 letters that tom foreman wrote to the president. some this is what is going on in the news. some of the stuff that sounds like he is trying to be helpful to the president making suggestions and things like that. and every single one of the letters signed off with call me when you can if you want to it. regards, tom. the president after 1460 letters never called him. >> right. >> and we don't even know if the president ever read the letters. >> he said he started it as a lark and it became a challenge. he said by the second year it became very hard by thinking every day about the president and become more aware of how in tractable repetitive issues pressed down upon anybody who takes that job. >> he s retiring this little hobby of his. he thinks since he hasn't heard from the president he wasn't sur